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The sensory and motor pathways, ascending or descending through the brainstem, are obliged to thread their way through a region littered with cranial nerve motor and sensory nuclei. Damage to a small region where a pathway is close to a nucleus or exiting cranial nerve creates a unique combination of defects, or a syndrome. Knowing the anatomy thus often allows one to localize lesions with great precision.